Most Overrated Metallica Songs

The Top Ten
1 Enter Sandman

Okay, Metallica are the greatest band of all time, and always will be, and as much as I like Enter Sandman, there are other Metallica songs which deserve more recognition than this one...

For example, The Four Horsemen, Creeping Death, Master Of Puppets and One are definitely MUCH better songs, and any song from their first four albums are just pure genius!

Well, I love Metallica, and Enter Sandman is the first song of them I have learnt to play. But it's not as epic as it seems, apart from the great show. The bass line is too easy, not as the style of Burton. In the Black Album there are lots of greater songs, like Sad But True and Wherever I May Roam.

I, like most true Metallica fans prefer the first 4 albums, this means I think most hit songs from the post-Justice era are overrated, starting with Sandman and Sad but True which are played at damn near every concert.

I get that this song is good,but when making a best metallica songs,this song always got a high number because it got mainstream.i personally think that this song is overrated because there are still a lot of metallica songs better than this one and when I make my favourite metallica songs, I never put it higher than 17.

2 Master of Puppets

Why this song is even on this list? This song is just perfect! Both guitar solos, drumming by Larz, bass by Cliff, vocals by James, guitar riffs and the melodic part: just amazing! One should be way higher and Master of Puppets SHOULDN'T BE on this list. Shame on you who ever put this song on the list.

Not the best off the album, not the best from the band, not the best of metal history either. Its too repetitive and stretched out too. There are plenty of better metal songs from other bands and Metallica themselves.

People go crazy over this song like it's the end of the world. Because of that, it's one of my least favorite '80s Metallica songs. I'd rather hear the Trivium version. At least it's heavier. (Hate me now, elitists! )

It is a good song, of course, and I love the live at Quebec Magnetic. But stop overrating this one, there's better stuff in its album and also in the other ones..

3 Seek & Destroy

This song is pretty boring and repetitive up until the the second half speed up but then after that it just drags on the outro too long too... not even close to the best on the album and way overplayed live

Although this is considered one of the band's classic thrash songs, I find the chorus and guitar riffs annoying and repetitive - The Four Horsemen is a much better song.

Seek & destroy is the most repetitive song of Metallica. The lyrics anre kind of lame and the voice is too high-pitched; even the bass sounds all wrong. I love Metallica, but I don't love this song.

For most people, it's the only Metallica song from Kill 'Em All they know or like. It's still an awesome song, but I get fed up with it distracting people from Whiplash, The Four Hoursemen, etc.

4 Nothing Else Matters

This song is very overrated on this site it a number 5 for best Metallica songs it should be at 25 or 30 best and it's not metal its to soft and james sounds so quite soft other overrated songs are enter sandman one and lots of stuff that's post black album

It's basically Metallica's version of a glam power ballad. It's better than glam power ballads but still the sappy song that kids show their parents to make them think Metallica is safe. Which it is compared to other stuff.

Not the best Metallica song, not even the best Metallica ballad or the best Black Album song. The Unforgiven is a lot better for a country-rock ballad (which I think they were going for). Lars' drumming is annoying at best.

Despite that I like this song I gotta say it's the most overrated song they ever made. People probably like this so much because this is something between classic rock that was huge back in the 70's and metal ballad.

5 Fade to Black

Lets face it, people just like it because of the guitar solo, which is not even close to one of the greatest of all time or even Metallicas greatest. The first bad Metallica song ever made in my opinion. Kill 'Em All was great and Ride The Lightning almost as good, but after Master Of Puppets Metallica went downhill. "And Justice For All.. " was too flat and everything after it lacked style.

Metallica itself is maybe the most overrated hard rock band. In my opinion you can't be one of the greatest bands ever if you have a few amazing songs. You need have many albums where the majority of the songs are great, and Metallica have way too many terrible songs to be considered the greatest bands of all time. Deep Purple and The Who are examples of bands that have endless good songs, and especially the latter clearly have even in more than one style of music.

With that said, Metallica is still good even if I think the band is overrated. Definitely among the 20 best hard rock ...more

Pretty damn overrated, needs some rest. It's a good song no doubt, however, there are
Songs that are better than it that do not get the respect they deserve. I think MOP is perfectly rated; the best metal song of all time gets its due. But Day is not overrated at all! In fact, it's quite underrated and had it been in either MOP, RTL or AJFA, old metallica fanatics would have worshipped it. I guess, we expect metallica to change when we are the ones who actually need to, because a lot of their recent music is maddeningly brilliant; we just don't bother understanding the beauty of it.

This song is too overrated! It's another overrated song that bores me to death! Why do people say it's better than Creeping Death?!

It is very. Real Metallica fans don't like the little ballads.

6 Hit the Lights

How the hell is this overrated, I need answers.

7 Sad but True

How is this song number 9 on this list? I think this should be number 2 or 1 on this list. This song is so overrated and should be higher. It's a good song, but ridiculously overplayed on the radio. Please vote!

I liked it when I got the album, but it never goes away. I'd say the same about 'Enter Sandman, ' but that has certified classic credential, this is just an average album track.

Good song but way to overplayed like all the other songs on this album.

At least it's not as overplayed as Enter Sandman...

8 Fuel

Worst song I've ever heard after unforgiven 2 and aqll Linkin Park songs

Not even the best song for its album

Fuel is a great song

9 Until It Sleeps

It's not overrated it's one of the most underrated metallica songs.

10 One

Overrated? OVERRATED?! How in any way? This is my favorite (or second favorite) Metallica song! It is far better than Master of Puppets. It has the most amazing solo by Kirk, classic example of a double bass action by Lars. Great rhythm guitar and vocals by James Hetfield. Sure you can't hear the bass by Jason, but I've heard the version with the bass louder and it's... AMAZING! Jason Newsted is a great bassist. Maybe Newsted isn't the best bassist, the best bassist is Cliff Burton of course! Cliff Burton was the only thing Master of Puppets had that One didn't. But other than that, One is far better and SHOULDN'T be on this list.

While I genuinely love this song, I'm not afraid to call "One" out as Metallica's most overrated song either.

Also, I'm surprised to see how people are so fervently defending this as "not overrated" when it's actually the most popular song in the Justice Album. There's nothing musically or lyrically wrong with this song, but why I think it's the most overrated Metallica song ever made is because it overshadows every song in the Justice Album to the point where "One" is really the only song the general public knows from that album. "Enter Sandman" is also overrated (it's also a great song in its own right), but at least you'd be able to at least mention "Nothing Else Matters" or at least one or two more songs from the Black Album.

Oh, and I don't think it's Metallica's best song about war either. That goes out to "Disposable Heroes", which is criminally underappreciated TBH.

The Contenders
11 Harvester of Sorrow

This song is great, and fantastically heavy to boot. But I get why people think it's overrated, there's a few better songs on...AJFA that don't get as much love as Harvester.

Sounds like a filler and anyone who votes for master of puppets as overrated can burn in hell forever

Why is this played in so many concerts?! They should have played Damage, Inc!

Not a bad track, but I've never really gotten into it.

12 The Day that Never Comes

My family plays this song all the time, and it gets a bit annoying after a while. Plus, everyone says this is the best song post-AJFA. I don't think so. This is one of Metallica's worst songs in my opinion and also one of their most overrated songs ever!

Incredibly boring. It tries so hard to stand up to the classic ballads like One and Fade to Black, but falls flat on it's face.

This song tries too hard to be like One!

All Nightmare Long is better.

13 For Whom the Bell Tolls

For whom the bell tolls is the greatest song of Metallica.

Yeah, but it's still very overrated.

Good song; but VERY overrated.

14 The Memory Remains

This is a pretty bad song which for some reason was a single and a huge hit. Extremely overrated.

As for other songs on this list:

Master of puppets has some good riffs and all in all is a good song, but it's sort of long and repetitive. It does get a lot of hype. It's a good song and I understand why so many people like it, but in my opinion it's not Metallica's best song, unlike a lot of other people's opinions. So yeah, it's sort of overrated. It's not THAT good.

Seek and Destroy is a great song. It's not overrated in my opinion. Fantastic riffs but maybe a bit repetitive.

One is another great song. Not overrated.

I like Nothing Else Matters, but it's slightly overrated

Enter Sandman has a good riff, but it is very overrated.

Okay look, I love load and reload, but this song does not deserve to be played live as much as it is. It's not a BAD song per say but it gets old real quick. I mean the live version is definitely a lot better, but really this song is just super overrated.

I don't get why this was such a popular single off Reload, James' vocals at the end are some of the most irritating I've ever heard!

I love Load and ReLoad but this song is awful. Based on one boring riff, this song is weird, pathetic and not good.

15 St. Anger

Why the heck is THIS song on this list? It's bad, but for something to be overrated, people actually have to LIKE it.

A good song that is considered horrible by most people, is the opposite of overrated.

16 Hero of the Day
17 The Unforgiven

Absolute garbage. Barney the Dinosaur made music with more meaning than this.

"The Unforgiven" isn't a Nickelback song? Could've fooled me

Not overrated. Do you even know what it's about?!

18 Slither
19 Orion
20 Now that We're Dead

To be honest this is one of the weaker songs from Hardwired still good but I have no idea why this one get's two music videos while the other songs only have one

This literally sounds like something that Nickelback would record.

21 Hardwired
22 Fight Fire with Fire

No, it's not, it's number 6 out of 8 on the respective rank-songs-on-album list.

23 Battery

Not gonna lie this song is pretty boring apart from the intro. How do people say this is better than Fade To Black, And Justice For all etc?!

24 All Nightmare Long
25 Creeping Death

I really like Metallica, and Ride the lightning is probably their best album in my opinion. But if there's one song I don't really like from Metallica, its Creeping Death. This song is probably the most overrated song in all of history, and around 99.999999% of people put this in their top 10 or 5, even though it's so damn repetitive. There are lots, and I mean LOADS of better Metallica songs than this (e.g Fade to black, Master of Puppets, Orion, Nothing Else Matters, One etc.) this should be number one on the list.

Also why the HELL is fade to black on the list?! It's by far their best song!

HOW IS THIS SONG EVEN ON THIS LIST?! I t has LITERALLY the greatest solo of all time and it tells a timeless story! I mean seriously everyone thinks Free Bird has the greatest solo ever but this song's solo puts Free Bird's solo to shame. I mean just cause Free Bird has one of the longest solos doesn't make it the best one. Creeping death is underrated if anything and they have the greatest solo ever case closed! -Avery

To the guy who commented "I always hated this song, so annoying, and they always play it live. Anything from Ride the Lighting is far better than this song" this song is on ride the lightning". You sure know a lot about metallica

I always hated this song, so annoying, and they always play it live. Anything from Ride the Lighting is far better than this song.

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